Felicity Gerry

Dr Felicity Gerry KC is an international defence barrister working in London, Melbourne, and the Hague. She holds a PhD on human trafficking and has recently worked as a Senior Anti-Human Trafficking Expert Consultant and Trainer for Lawyers Without Borders. Labelled ‘The International Dynamo’, Felicity has been recognised for her work across jurisdictions on career defining cases specialising in terrorism, war crimes and white-collar crime. This includes defending in International Criminal Courts on war crimes and obstruction issues, the UK Supreme Court on #jointenterprise law, the Australian High Court on rights to second appeal and the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal in homicide. She led a due diligence memorandum on investment listing on SGX for Justice for Myanmar, which led to the $82m divestment of the Golden City scheme, and helped save a trafficked woman from death row in Indonesia. She is leading the call for Christine Keeler to receive a posthumous pardon after the fallout of one of Britain’s biggest ever political scandal, The Profumo Affair, in the 1960s. Her successful petition for mercy for Zak Grieve, a young Indigenous man in Australia, has been described as “rock star lawyering”.

Felicity holds a PhD, a Master of Laws in International Governance (LLM Int Gov), a Bachelor of Laws (LLB), and a Graduate Certificate in University Teaching and Learning (GCUTL). She is a Professorial Fellow at Restorative Justice NGO RJ4All and an Honorary Professor in the School of Health and Society at the University of Salford and has a long history of teaching legal issues around contemporary international legal challenges’ – including Sanctions Law, War Crimes, Modern Slavery, Digital / Tech law, Terrorism, and Art Law. .